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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blench \Blench\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blenched}; p. pr & vb n. {Blenching}.] [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See {Blink}, and cf 3d {Blanch}.] 1. To shrink; to start back to draw back from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot --Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. --Jeffrey. 2. To fly off to turn aside. [Obs.] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that --Shak.
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